“It’s a sad day,” says Rolling Stones guitarist Keith Richards, mourning his idol and good friend Johnnie Johnson. “I’ve been playing Chuck Berry records all day, listening to Johnnie.

FLINT, MI -- Johnnie Tyrell Johnson Jr.will spend the rest of his life in prison after being convicted of gunning down a man in 2009 in front of a Flint nightclub in retaliation for a shooting ...

Johnnie Johnson, one of Chuck Berry‘s longtime sidemen and the man who inspired Berry’s classic “Johnnie B. Goode,” filed suit against Berry in a St. Louis Federal District Court on Nov. 29.

Johnnie Johnson, the St. Louis pianist whose popular early-1950s trio was the launching pad for a young guitarist named Chuck Berry and who played a key role in the sound of Berry’s genre ...

January 18 -- It's Johnnie Johnson's year of vindication. After several years of campaigning, the St. Louis pianist — who came to fame as rock and roll pioneer Chuck Berry's collaborator during ...